Architect, theorist, urban planner, artist . . . Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier, blazed a trail across many creative fields. At the heart of his practice, as a new show at Paris’s Centre Pompidou reveals, was an underlying interest in how the human body’s proportions could be used to achieve visual and spatial harmony in design.

Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of Le Corbusier’s death, “The Measure of Man,” which runs from April 29 through August 3, brings together 300 examples of his work, from vibrant figurative paintings to architectural models. For a further look at this visionary, just cross the Seine to Studio Willy Rizzo, where a series of rare portraits Rizzo took of him are on view through June 22.

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